Thanks, Vishnu. I am glad that it wasn’t just Pat and I who were reading our emails. I hope that our exchange has helped a little bit, and that at least some of you will read on in books, wikipedia and other sources.
Krushnamegh. ________________________________ From: Vishnu Pk <[email protected]> Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 11:09:20 -0500 To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] kk and pat discussion Thanks Krushnamegh and Pat, I have been following this thread eagerly, eventhough i didn`t understand the terms much.But i shall look them up elsewhere.But in my view this discussion was and would be interesting and not entirely out of scope of this forum. Cheers, Vishnu ________________________________ From: "Kunte, Krushnamegh" <[email protected]> To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, January 9, 2011 8:50:34 PM Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] kk and pat discussion Ashwin, I am glad to see some interest in these subjects as well. For starters, I would recommend reading Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene. This book explains many basic concepts in evolutionary biology lucidly. It was written for non-biologists with college degrees, so this should be easily accessible for most people on this group. I do want to start writing articles on biology for non-scientists keenly interested in organism-level biology, ecology, evolution, genetics and conservation. Perhaps I will use such discussion threads as inspiration to write articles on these subjects in the future. Cheers, Krushnamegh. ________________________________ From: Ashwin Baindur <[email protected]> Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 07:39:41 -0500 To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] kk and pat discussion Hi Krushnamegh, Please do not stop such discussions on this group because all of us cannot immediately comprehend it. This presents us with "stretch" to motivate us to learn more and rise up in knowledge levels. Today, the world of buttefly science has humungous amounts of this kind of genetic stuff. So the right thing to do is as Nelson requests - please provide a simple explanation and point us to a few resources so we can all understand this subject. At the very least point us to the relevant articles on Wikipedia. I have absolutely no objection to the discussion taking place because it has now motivated me to learn more about this. Hox genes are new to me and almost immediately I came across it in again while rereading Bill Bryson's A Short History of Everything. If it is in that book, then it is obviously something we should expect a reasonably well informed person (who aspires to like science) to know. My only point is please rename the discussion in such cases. The topic was an attempt to bring forth a serious subject up for discussion and the evolution discussion should have redirected to another thread. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ________________________________ From: Kishen Das <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 9 January, 2011 5:34:54 Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] kk and pat discussion As long as we stick to biology, we should be fine. Initially I was afraid that it will be an evolution vs creationism argument, but very glad that its not !!! Once in a while its ok to indulge into topics related to evolution. Kishen On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Kunte, Krushnamegh <[email protected]> wrote: Nelson, I agree that this was a bit too outside the circle of things that we discuss on this group. But there is Wikipedia if you want to know about these terms and concepts. Pat’s last email took it away from butterflies, so I won’t write about it on the group any more, anyway. With best wishes, Krushnamegh. ------------------------------------------------- Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD Post-doctoral Research Fellow FAS Center for Systems Biology Harvard University 52 Oxford St Northwest Lab Room 458.40-3 Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Ph: (617) 496-0078 Cell: (512) 577-1370 Fax: (617) 495-2196 Email: [email protected] <http://[email protected]/> Other emails: [email protected] <http://[email protected]/> , [email protected] <http://[email protected]/> Personal website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/index.htm Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ Google profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/krushnamegh ------------------------------------------------- ________________________________ From: Nelson Rodrigues <[email protected] <http://[email protected]/> > Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected] <http://[email protected]/> > Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 01:59:59 -0500 To: butterflyindia <[email protected] <http://[email protected]/> > Subject: [ButterflyIndia] kk and pat discussion pardon me for being an ignoramus, but what the stuff you are discussing is going way above my head , can someone simplify it for me please nelson rodrigues -- Enjoy
